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Sweetwater Music Hall Hosts ‘Live Dead & Brothers’ – Prepare to Rejoin the Mesmerizing Journey Through the Golden Era of Psychedelic Blues & the Seeds of the ‘Jam Band’ Scene – June 25th & 26th
Sweetwater Music Hall Hosts ‘Live Dead & Brothers’ – Prepare to Rejoin the Mesmerizing Journey Through the Golden Era of Psychedelic Blues & the Seeds of the ‘Jam Band’ Scene
Read MoreMarin IJ: Mill Valley Taps $500K for Wildfire Defense Buffer – Home Sellers in Risky Areas Must Give Prospective Buyers Fire Inspection Reports, and Cities Must Update Building Standards to Qualify for for State Fire-Protection Grants
“We have a very robust program with the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority, where we do a lot of projects of fire fuel removal and fire fuel reductions, and public education and inspections,” Hilliard said. “So we need to know where the state says, these are high priority areas that you should also be looking at.” The state continues to impose fire-protection mandates for homeowners and municipalities, Hilliard said. Sellers of homes in risky areas must give prospective buyers fire inspection reports. Cities must update building standards to qualify for state fire-protection grants.
Hilliard said the state’s new fire maps do not influence decisions by insurers on who can obtain coverage. The insurers use other data.
Bay Area Reporter: After Spahr Center’s Closure & With a Major Pride Event Set for June 7th in Mill Valley, The Marin LGBTQ+ Center Is Leasing Space from the Marin Multi-Cultural Center at 709 Fifth Ave.
The new center has raised $50,000 thus far, Spahr said. The center’s rent is $1,200 a month, Otton confirmed. The top expenses are rent, insurance, and program costs, Spahr stated. “We too have basic operational expenses and will use some for community building events,” Spahr stated. “As you know, we are all volunteers and we hope to raise enough money to be able to employ staff one day. It is a community effort.”
Read MoreMarin IJ: Mill Valley Offers Funding for the Mt. Tam Community Land Trust to Address Affordable Housing Possibilities
There’s buy-in not only from our city but also potential big donors in the community, philanthropic donors, MCF, the county,” Vice Mayor Max Perrey said. This is a really important step,” Mayor Stephen Burke said. “The city’s commitment will lead to getting the county’s commitment” and others. Councilmember Urban Carmel struck a cautionary note, saying the city’s affordable housing trust funds are needed for its 45-residence project on Hamilton Drive. Carmel also said the trust has to meet with the city’s Housing Advisory Committee, which would issue recommendations to the council. “Signing the MOU, I’m certainly in favor,” he said. “It doesn’t commit the city to anything, but shows that the city is very interested in the CLT and wants to make sure the CLT succeeds.”
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of May 25th
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Read MoreConnie Leyva and Steven Glazer: Meta & Google Garnered Tens of Billions of Dollars in Q1. Should Tech Pay Their Share to Mitigate the Impact of their Products? Tax Big Tech to Mitigate Harm on Kids
We have a common and accepted practice of requiring housing developers, or any business that creates an impact on its neighbors, to mitigate the damage to communities from their actions. These fees pay for traffic, school and environmental impacts. We should now assess the same cost to these technology platforms for the harms they have caused to California teens, the public school system and independent news reporting. No one likes new taxes, but most people understand the necessity if the money is going to compelling needs, with accountability and oversight. In this case, the new proposed tax would only be paid by the entities causing the harm. Last month, Google, Meta and Amazon reported first-quarter profits in the tens of billions of dollars.
Read MoreMill Valley’s Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation: “The Fact Is That Humanity Has a System That’s Been Put in Place & it Worked for YR4”
In December, astronomers calculated that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential than 500 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. Researchers reclassified YR4 as a non-threat in February, but the interim period was the first time that the International Asteroid Warning Network had been activated to respond to a threat since its formation about a decade ago. “The fact is that humanity does have a system that has been put in place in the last decade, essentially, and it worked for YR4,” said Danica Remy, president of the B612 Foundation, a Mill Valley nonprofit focused on identifying near-Earth objects (NEOs) that pose a threat to humanity.
Read MoreThe New York Times Created a Spectacular, Multi-Media Piece Around the History of Coyotes in San Francisco and Marin County – It’s Well Worth Your Time
They walk along busy San Francisco streets. In Chinatown plazas. Across the paths of Muni buses. One was found dozing in a laundromat. Many people simply wonder where they all came from in the first place. Scientists found that the DNA of the first arrivals did not match that of coyotes to the south. Instead, it matched the DNA of coyotes found to the north, beyond the strait and bay that separate the city from Marin County. “Did they walk over the Golden Gate Bridge?” asked Christine Wilkinson, a carnivore ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “That’s my top theory.”
Read MoreMarin IJ Earns Statewide Awards For News Coverage, Photos, Opinion Section & Much More!
The Marin Independent Journal has been a beacon of top-notch journalism for decades, and this year has been no different.The organization earned 20 awards — including five first-place honors — in an annual statewide journalism contest. The California News Publishers Association announced the results of its California Journalism Awards at a gala in Universal City on May 17. The association, which distributes awards by circulation division, includes hundreds of publications. The judges honored the IJ with a first-place award for in-depth reporting for a six-part series on President Trump’s impact on Marin. The paper also took the top prize for outstanding local news coverage of the November 2024 elections.
Read MoreSFist: Noe Valley Jokesters Want to Secede from SF and Join Marin County Instead
We assume this is satire, because the petition language is full of jokes and makes no real substantive arguments. “Noe Valley might be vibrant, but it deserves more than the constraints of high-density urban living,” the petition says. “By joining Marin, we reclaim our right to a peaceful, suburban life — where parking spots are a given, and the existential crises over every artisanal loaf of bread become a relic of the past.” The petition also says that by being annexed into Marin County, Noe Valley can “Embrace a vision where Noe Valley stands as a beacon of renewal — where innovative programs like Marin’s renowned ‘Golden Retriever Ownership Program’ (yes, really) illustrate a commitment to quality and community joy.”
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